Hukou registration is an instrument to control nonplanned population and capital movements, which the Chinese Communist … agricultural or nonagricultural hukou inheritor and be distinguished by their location with respect to an administrative unit …. Hukou distribution used to be entirely determined by birth, but nowadays, Chinese citizens can self-select their hukou …

In Chinese cities, migrants with rural hukou, compared to residents with local urban hukou, face more uncertainty, have … empirical analysis examines a nationally representative household survey from 2013 and uses mother's hukou status as an … instrumental variable. We find that household heads with rural hukou are about 20 percentage points less likely to own housing …

China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better …. Restrictions on the hukou and the fragmented pension system limit labour mobility. Local regulations aim at, among other things … at making up for the slow progress over the past decade or so. There are signs that these efforts are helping China …